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  Evening Standard

  Live classical music concerts to return to Radio 3 from Wigmore Hall

  The BBC has announced a date for the return of live classical music to Radio 3.Leading musicians including Dame Mitsuko Uchida, Mark Padmore and Iestyn Davies will perform a concert series - the first since lockdown - from Marylebone’s Wigmore Hall, daily from June 1.

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  Live classical music to return to BBC Radio 3

  Performers will adhere to social distancing guidelines, the BBC said.

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  Town&Country

  Britten’s final opera returns to Covent Garden this December

  Mark Padmore is superb in David McVicar’s thrilling new production of Death in Venice

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  Evening Standard

  Mark Padmore, Simon Lepper review: A consummate artist scales the heights at Wigmore Hall

  In a recent interview, British tenor Mark Padmore said that, for him as a singer, “Meaning has the upper hand over pure virtuosity. Throughout, pianist Simon Lepper provided solidly understated support.

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  The Guardian

  Biss/Padmore review – elegance and intensity in compelling Schubert

  Expressionism in music, you could argue, begins with the works that Schubert composed in the last year of his life, with their groundbreaking explorations of beauty, fear, grace and extreme emotion. For the final concert of his Late Style series, examining works written in the face of mortality, pianist Jonathan Biss juxtaposed the A Major Sonata D959 with Schwanengesang, for which he was joined by tenor Mark Padmore. The elegance and intensity of Biss’s playing make him a compelling Schubert

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  The Independent

  St John Passion, Barbican, London, review: One of the most moving realisations I’ve ever heard

  Of Bach’s two surviving Passions, the St John is smaller than the majestic St Matthew, but makes up for it by being the more intensely dramatic and operatic focussing as it does on Christ’s trial. Tenor Mark Padmore, for years our superlative evangelist, pondered how this much-loved, almost over-familiar work can ever be heard afresh in a modern, secular age. Each moment – collective or individual – was exquisitely characterised by the 12 singers and the Britten Sinfonia, as for example in the

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